Sentence examples for brain size and function from inspiring English sources

Addressing this question has enormous implications for understanding neurodevelopmental disorders affecting brain size and function.

Such dramatic effects on brain size and function are unlikely in human carriers of BRCA1 mutations, the authors of the study note, but they propose the findings could shed light on the gene's role in brain evolution.

Researchers will use advanced imaging techniques, cerebrospinal fluid tests and sensitive cognitive measures to monitor whether the accumulation of amyloid and other tell-tale proteins in the brain is reduced, whether brain size and function is maintained, and, most importantly, whether mental performance is preserved.

As recent human evolution may have involved duplication more than alteration at single nucleosides, in addition to the fact that brain size and function evolved in hominines, one might well expect that relatively more material duplicated in the genome is expressed in the human brain; some research supports this expectation [50].

If we are able to demonstrate an association between muscle size and brain size and function, this could add further weight to the common cause hypothesis [ 34- 37].

The abnormal regulation of neural progenitors and neurogenesis can lead to altered brain size and function, and is implicated in a number of neurodevelopmental disorders and brain malformations including mental retardation, schizophrenia, epilepsy, autism, lissencephaly, microcephaly, and heterotopias.

He thinks the evidence that simple tool design remained static during the evolution of many hominid species argues for the disjunction of large brain size and cognitive function.

When looking at the relationship between brain size and muscle size or function it is important to make sure that the size of the individual being studied is not acting as a confounding factor (i.e. that large people have large brains and large muscles).

We used path analysis to decompose the correlation between brain size and migratory distance as a function of the most relevant extrinsic and intrinsic factors (see results).

An alternative method, and the one we adopt in the present paper, is to look for correlations between relative brain size and some aspect of ecological functioning.

We modeled brain size (both as log-absolute brain size and residual brain size) as a function of migratory distance and confounding factors with a phylogenetic generalized least squares (PGLS) approach [58], [59].